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The cells are too expensive for commercial PHOSPHORIC ACID F.C.
applications -- but several companies are
PHOSPHORIC ACID FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS
examining ways to reduce costs.
TRANSPORTATION:
Most of alkali fuel cells are being designed
for transport applications 50-100 kw PAFC for transit buses
two 20 kw fuel cell stacks have been used by SOLID OXIDE F.C. APPLICATIONS:
Virginia Tech and Texas Tech universities to
evaluate performance in hybrid electric cars.
on natural gas and (hopefully) achieve automotive makers begin introducing hybrid
an efficiency of 55 percent. vehicles that use a combination of fossil fuel
and electric motors.
• Partners in a technology development
program, DOE and Siemens For now, manufacturers seem focused on
Westinghouse hope to place a 1 mw producing a vehicle that can reform gasoline
fuel cell cogeneration plant in or methanol into hydrogen– so cars powered
operation. by fuel cells can still gas up at traditional filling
stations.
SOLID OXIDE F.C. APPLICATIONS:
USE OF DIESEL FUEL
In the not-too-distant future, fuel cells will
Global Thermoelectric's Fuel Cell Division,
change how we live our everyday lives. They
which is developing cells designed at the
will power our vehicles, homes and office
Julich Research Institute in Germany and buildings more efficiently and with
Cermatec-Advanced Ionic Technologies are significantly less impact on the environment
working on units up to 10 kw in capacity. than fossil fuels.
Running on diesel fuel, these cells would be
Fuel cell technology could end energy
used for mobile power generation. shortages and reduce reliance on imported
Direct fuel cells extract hydrogen directly oil.
from a fuel such as methane without using a
reformer. Using readily available hydrocarbon
fuels would avoid the problems of storing and
refuelling with hydrogen.